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| German minister says deportations will rise after Cologne attacks | |  German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said on Wednesday more foreign criminals would be expelled once new restrictions are rolled out in the wake of sexual attacks on women blamed on migrants in Cologne. Maas and Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere outlined plans on Tuesday to speed up the deportation of foreigners who commit physical and sexual assaults, resist police or damage property - crimes which mostly carry probationary sentences but do not trigger expulsion under current law. "There will certainly be more deportation orders as a result of changes to the law because we are lowering the requirements for a deportation," Maas told German television channel ARD.
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| Suicide bomber kills at least 15 outside Pakistan polio centre | |  A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people, most of them police, outside a polio eradication centre in Pakistan's western city of Quetta on Wednesday, police said following the latest militant attack on the anti-polio campaign in the country. "It was a suicide blast, we have gathered evidence from the scene," Ahsan Mehboob, the provincial police chief told Reuters. "The police team had arrived to escort teams for the polio campaign." No one has claimed responsibility for the blast.
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| No concrete clues of "attack targets" in Germany after Istanbul bomb - minister | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said on Wednesday that the security situation in Germany had not changed after a suicide bomber killed at least 10 people, mainly German tourists, in Istanbul on Tuesday. "We know Germany is also a target for terrorists and so a general danger certainly cannot be denied but at the moment there are no concrete indications of attack targets but the authorities are very, very alert," he told broadcaster ARD. (Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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| Behind both Obama and Haley speeches, Trump looms | |  By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump was not in the room during President Barack Obama's final State of the Union speech, but the Republican presidential front-runner held the center of attention nonetheless. Both Obama's speech on Tuesday, and for that matter, the Republican response by South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, took pains to rebuke Trump, the real-estate mogul whose red-hot rhetoric has endeared him to some and dismayed others in the campaign for the Nov. 8 presidential election. Obama and Haley, although from different parties, offered a defense on Tuesday of establishment politics, a plea for optimism and a quest for common ground.
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| Mexico not investigating Sean Penn, Kate Del Castillo directly | |  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico is not directly investigating the actors Sean Penn or Kate Del Castillo for meeting with drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, but it will look into the circumstances of their meeting, government spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said on Tuesday. The secret meeting between Hollywood star Penn and the world's most-wanted drug boss in early October was essential to finding the fugitive, Mexico's attorney general said on Monday. (Reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Writing by Elinor Comlay; Editing by Simon Gardner)
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| President Obama's final State of the Union address | |  President Barack Obama knocked Republican presidential candidates for anti-Muslim rhetoric and accused critics on Tuesday of playing into the hands of Islamic State in a speech aimed at setting an optimistic tone for his last year in office. Obama, delivering his last State of the Union speech to Congress before leaving office next year, said it was fiction to declare the United States was in economic decline or getting weaker on the international stage. In a direct slap at Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, Obama said insulting Muslims hurt the United States and "betrayed" its identity.
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| Obama knocks Republicans for anti-Muslim rhetoric, seeks to set 2016 tone | |  By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama knocked Republican presidential candidates for anti-Muslim rhetoric and accused critics on Tuesday of playing into the hands of Islamic State in a speech aimed at setting an optimistic tone for his last year in office. Obama, delivering his last State of the Union speech to Congress before leaving office next year, said it was fiction to declare the United States was in economic decline or getting weaker on the international stage. In a direct slap at Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, Obama said insulting Muslims hurt the United States and "betrayed" its identity.
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| Italian marine will not return to India for trial - senator | |  One of two Italian marines accused of murdering Indian fishermen off the coast of Kerala almost four years ago will not be returning to India to face trial after being allowed home temporarily for medical treatment, a senator said on Tuesday. India had granted Massimiliano Latorre, who suffered a stroke while in New Delhi in 2014, a period of leave in Italy for medical treatment, but he was supposed to return by Friday. It was not clear when or if Latorre would return to India.
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| As relations thaw, some Iranian prisoners in U.S. hope for early release | | | By Joel Schectman and Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vahid Hosseini struggled to make it in the United States after he left Iran 25 years ago. Then, in 2008, Hosseini found a more lucrative activity: buying industrial equipment from dozens of American companies and shipping it to Dubai, from where it was forwarded to Iran. Hosseini told Reuters he knew he was violating U.S. economic sanctions against his home country but thought of it as a minor infraction. |
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